The Essence of Coaching in Leadership - a Conversation with Danielle Ballantine

Rawthentic Leadership

Episode 40 of the Rawthentic Leadership Podcast is a conversation jam packed with wisdom from lived experience and deep reflections.

My guest in conversation is Danielle Ballantine, CEO of Your Side Australia, a not-for-profit organisation specialising in providing total care for vulnerable Australians, in particular the elderly and disabled.

Our chosen topic of conversation centres on a much-needed skill in leadership – coaching

Here are some of the many topics and stories we explored and uncovered:-

• Danielle’s approach to coaching in business and what influenced it
• Role models in coaching leadership
• The many benefits of a coaching culture
• How coaching sits on a continuum
• When a coaching style of leadership is not appropriate

• The challenges of switching leadership styles
• Helping natural problem-solvers to develop a coaching approach
• The horse in the hole analogy!
• Creating a culture of problem-definition
• Empowering decision-making
• Drawing our strengths – the benefits of investing in training
• When leaders are too time-poor or cognitively overloaded to coach
• The greatest barriers to creating a coaching culture
• How coaching can facilitate managing and leading change
• What happens when we work and walk together
• Exploring differing coaching styles and finding the right fit
• The power of storytelling in coaching – when it works and when it doesn’t!
• How coaching builds confidence
• Coaching and decision-making autonomy
• Coaching and succession planning

You can follow Danielle here https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleballantine/

You can visit Your Side Australia here https://yourside.org.au/

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